Title:
Portraits of African-American heroes / Tonya Bolden ; paintings by Ansel Pitcairn.
Author:
Bolden, Tonya.
Pitcairn, Ansel.
Pitcairn, Ansel, illustrator.
Publication Information:
New York : Puffin Books, 2005, ©2003.
Call Number:
E185.96 .B58 2005
Abstract:
A collection of twenty biographical stories about famous African American heroes from Frederick Douglass to Gwendolyn Brooks to Joe Lewis.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 8.3 3.
ISBN:
9780142404737
Physical Description:
88 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Frederick Douglass -- Matthew Henson -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Bessie Coleman -- Paul Robeson -- Satchel Paige -- Thurgood Marshall -- Pauli Murray -- Joe Louis -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Jacob Lawrence -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Shirley Chisholm -- Malcolm X -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Judith Jamison -- Ruth Simmons -- Ben Carson.
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Reading Level:
Ages 7 up.
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